Speaking of Tezuka, I’ll remind you that Kate (The Manga Critic) Dacey is giving away copies of the deeply crazy MW, and I’ll note that Vertical will be releasing Ode to Kirihito in two paperback volumes at the end of this month.

"I ran into Bruce at a bon-spiel in Lower Sackville, and I hadn't seen him in maybe a year," recalls Dacey, who teamed with Lohnes for one of the most memorable victories in Brier history, the 2004 final at Saskatoon when Dacey drew the four-foot to score three and beat defending national and world champ Randy Ferbey 10-9.

This new brand of secular moralism is starting to gain some traction, incidentally, such as Dacey’s The Secular Conscience, with roots spreading back though John Stuart Mill to the incendiary “Atheist Jew” Spinoza.